7th Day Brewery Brewer
On the first day, Mike Beresford Jones took up homebrewing because there was a dearth of locally made craft lagers. He began developing a recipe for a quality pilsner, and a handful of local dads who met through their children’s sport would join him each week to drink it in his garage at Curl Curl,…
Philter Brewing Brewer
Few breweries have burst onto the craft beer scene quite as triumphantly as Philter. A mere four months into existence, with only two beers to their name, the brewing company took home one of the most coveted titles in Australian beer – Champion Pale Ale at the 2017 Craft Beer Awards. It turned out…
Bonehead Brewing Hefeweizen & The West Coast Pop Beer
Bonehead Brewing aren’t the sorts to let any moment on the calendar pass them by here serve up two releases celebrating equally important milestones. First is **Hefeweizen**, a beer brewed for the Kensington brewery’s Oktoberfest celebrations complete with can art featuring a hand-drawn illustration…
Batch Brewing Co Brighter Future, La Sfida & In A Pickle Beer
If I tried to think of a satirical "Batch doing Batch things" release, I reckon I’d struggle to come up with a better trio than what we have here. I mean this in the fondest way possible, of course. Batch’s eclectic mix of invented styles, classics and GABS-worthy silliness is exactly why they’re…
Otherside Brewing Co Headliner 2020, DDH Sabro Oat Cream IPA, Triple Vinyl & Mango Raspberry Slurpee Sour Beer
Released with ten days of each other, this quartet showcases not only the scope of Otherside’s brew schedule but also acts as a snapshot of 2020’s pointy end beer zeitgeist. They’d also work quite well at some sort of beer degustation, if that was possible. Kicking off with the latest Creative…
BentSpoke Brewing Co Cans Beer
A year ago, BentSpoke announced plans to open a second, larger brewery it its hometown of Canberra. Part of the plan for the second site was to start packaging their beers. And now they are, with Barley Griffin and Crankshaft IPA the first two beers to receive tinnie treatment. For those who've come…
Newstead & BrewCult Milk & Two Pineapples Beer
Another collaboration from Newstead Brewing and one that is kind of a tribute to the collaborator too. In hooking up with Hendo from BrewCult, they've offered a nod and a wink to one of his past glories, the GABS People's Choice winner from 2015: Milk & Two Sugars. Where that was an espresso'd and lactosed…
7th Day Brewery Making Waves: Conspiracy Theory & Hey Weiss Guy Beer
7th Day Brewery are back with the blessings from their limited release Making Waves series, and have us ready to head off to church (the pub). On the starting line is beer number five in the gang, **Conspiracy Theory**: an oat cream IPA pouring a topaz delight with juicy sensations. Considering this…
Bridge Road Brewers Hazy Harvest & Dark Harvest 2023 Beer
March's turn into April always means we get to enjoy a once-in-a-year opportunity in Australia: beers made with hops plucked straight from the bine. Among the earliest releases is always Bridge Road’s Harvest Beers, which are the country’s longest-running, going right back to 2009. In more recent…
NZ Hops 2022: Molly Rose & Sailors Grave Beer
**Scroll down for links to more NZ Hops beers** There's a risk inherent in a project like this – inviting a stack of brewers to create beers showcasing hops first and foremost – that you'll end up with a parade of IPAs. You can also assume that when it comes to Molly Rose they'll follow a different…
Sailors Grave Squid vs Whale V & Grapefruit & Chrysanthemum Flower Ale Beer
It's fair to say that a beer loaded with a "maelstrom of hops" that weighs in at 7 percent ABV isn't the sort instantly associated with Sailors Grave, yet **Squid vs Whale** has proven so popular it's now up to its fifth edition. V comes in a smaller can than its predecessors, but packs no less character.…
Sailors Grave Brewing Rite & Deep Into The Forest Beer
Sailors Grave’s Deckhand is the Orbost brewery’s membership club which sees them ship a dozen beers every couple of much to their thirsty fans, or salty seadogs as they're occasionally known. It typically includes a mix of core range beers, limited releases and new beers and included in August's…
Brew & A: Andrew Robson of The Lord News
When the Lord Nelson took out Champion Draught Beer at the Sydney Royal Beer & Cider Show earlier this month, it wasn't just one of Australia's pioneering brewpubs that enjoyed the accolade. As The Lord's founder Blair Hayden was quick to point out, Nelspresso Brown Ale's success was…
Brew & A: Carla Naismith News
The road to becoming a brewer doesn't often follow a straightforward career trajectory. Sure, there are more TAFE courses helping budding brewers along the way there ever before but, in many case, it’s a job into which people fall – and, often, it’s only with the beauty of hindsight they realise…
Brew & A: Pizey News
Not only has Bootleg Brewery been around longer than almost every other microbrewery in Australia, it's done a remarkable job of holding onto its brewers for a long time. Past head brewer Michael "Brookesy" Brookes was there a decade and a half and the man that stepped into his shoes has now been…
Brew & A: Stu Grant News
In Tasmania’s busy beer market, gypsy outfit Ocho has managed to stand out from the crowd since launching. Stu Grant released the first beers under the Ocho banner shortly after he started brewing at Van Diemen at the end of 2015, selling direct to customers via the brewing…
Brew & A: Justin Corbitt News
Melbourne brewery Hawkers is approaching the midway point of a burst of barrel aged releases that could well be the densest yet seen in Australia. Following a triplet of aquavit-ified Wheat Wines, a bourbon barrel aged Old Ale left the brewery this week and there are various imperial stouts to come,…
Brew & A: Ken Friend News
Ken Friend is every bit as chirpy, chatty and kind-hearted as you might expect from someone with such a surname. But don’t see his easy smile and mistake him for a passive person who lets the world push him around. Maybe 22 years in the Air Force shaped him into a determined go-getter with an eye…
Brew & A: Keegan Steinbacher News
Since the launch of their first beers at their panoramic brewery home at Cape Naturaliste in South West WA almost a decade ago, Eagle Bay Brewing have established themselves as a key player in the Western Australian brewing scene. Next year sees the family-run operation mark ten years…
Brew & A: Morrison Brewery News
There's around 20 breweries and brewing companies that call Tasmania home today. Yet most of them have less than a year or two under their belts, making Launceston based Morrison Brewery something of an elder statesman on the scene. This week sees the family run business turn five, with celebrations…
Brew & A: Sam Clayman News
“Brewers are essentially just glorified janitors who farm yeast on the side.” Studying enzyme function relating to metabolism in snails. It doesn’t sound like an obvious precursor to brewing. But for Sam Clayman, head brewer at All Hands Brewing House, it was exactly that. Sam started homebrewing…
Brew & A: Frenchies' Vince de Soyres News
Vince De Soyres has always done things a bit differently to those around him. Growing up near Paris with a German mum and French dad, his upbringing was heavily influenced by his mother’s homeland. “I always felt like I didn’t have the same cultural beacons as my friends: different music, different…
Brew & A: Brookes Beer News
With the new Crafty Pint up and running, we're bringing back some of the regular features that may have been a little neglected while the tradies were doing their refurbs at Crafty Towers. We've also got plenty of new feature series coming too – look out for Craft Beer Heroes, Beer Nuts, a new in-house…
Brew & A: Tim Miller News
Brewmanity finally broke ground on what will become their brewpub home in South Melbourne last month. It's been a long time coming, given former Melbourne Demons captain David Neitz and co-founder Jamie Fox were raising money for good causes through their beers midway through the last decade. Since…
Brew & A: Thirsty Crow News
Craig Wealands wasted little time putting Wagga Wagga's Thirsty Crow on the map, winning an AIBA trophy for his Vanilla Milk Stout within months of opening. That beer has gone on to become a true cult classic of the Australian beer scene, while Craig has added further silverware to his collection. More…
Brew & A: Eden Pink News
When Eden Pink first started working at Prancing Pony around six years ago, becoming a brewer wasn't front-and-centre of the 19-year-old's mind. Sure, she loved beer but as a student at the time Eden regarded the front-of-house job as a fun way to combine her love of working with beer and people…
Brew & A: Rachel Freeman News
Sometimes it feels like brewing is less of a career you choose and more one that chooses you. Once upon a time, people became brewers to make beers they couldn't readily buy but as craft beer has become more available, it hasn't stopped passionate people from joining the industry. For…
Brew & A: Sow & Piglets News
Sow & Piglets have always done things a little differently. For one, how many of the 600-plus active brewing companies in Australia started out in a hostel? And how many of them maintain a focus on traditional German beer styles? Even the origin story is rather unlikely. Marion Klink and John…
Brew & A: Chase Saraiva – Wildflower News
Chase Saraiva’s journey to become head brewer of Sydney’s Wildflower Brewing and Blending is a tale as old as time. He travelled 12,500km for a two-month working holiday only to be caught in the middle of a deadly global pandemic two weeks in. Thus, with no way of returning to his pestilence-riddled…
Brew & A: Mattias Isaksson News
When the team behind Prickly Moses took over Queenscliff's Esplanade Hotel, it offered a unique opportunity for Mattias Isaksson.As one quarter of the team behind the gypsy brewery Old Wives Ales, Mattias was keen to find more work brewing and, having just moved into the area, saw the opportunity to…
Brew & A: Luigi Mensi News
If you were going to grow a brewer in a lab, you could do a lot worse than using Luigi Mensi as a template. A lifetime of obtaining seemingly unrelated skills, lucky coincidences and unceasing hard work aside, it was a chance decision to try to make some mead while in the midst of studying chemistry…
Brew & A: Jum Ryan News
It’s hard to think of too many places you can work as a brewer that are as distinct from one another as Singapore and Alice Springs. But that relocation is one made recently by Jum Ryan when he became Alice Springs Brewing Co's head brewer after leading brewing for Little Creatures in both Singapore…
